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modpost: remove unreachable code after fatal()
authorMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Sun, 3 Dec 2023 09:49:34 +0000 (18:49 +0900)
committerMasahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Sun, 10 Dec 2023 06:34:37 +0000 (15:34 +0900)
commitc9f2b8d45aa453ee58e66a9b0e7a54e170381585
treebbcf64207d05fdb0daaca65aff0e342d50754c74
parent5cac96f937021de3b0fbc60cdc6d6c4ee5b2456d
modpost: remove unreachable code after fatal()

Now compilers can recognize fatal() never returns.

While GCC 4.5 dropped support for -Wunreachable-code, Clang is capable
of detecting the unreachable code.

  $ make HOSTCC=clang HOSTCFLAGS=-Wunreachable-code-return
      [snip]
    HOSTCC  scripts/mod/modpost.o
  scripts/mod/modpost.c:520:11: warning: 'return' will never be executed [-Wunreachable-code-return]
                          return 0;
                                 ^
  scripts/mod/modpost.c:477:10: warning: 'return' will never be executed [-Wunreachable-code-return]
                  return 0;
                         ^
  2 warnings generated.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
scripts/mod/modpost.c